daily life of a japanese mom

Poor Urashima-Taro san….

After I started working, I recognized that I was no longer young. I would say, it’s ‘Urashima Taro feeling’ . During this 10 years, the way of business has been completely changed to this Net Tech ways!! You can look up any file of any man of your colleagues with your own PC in front of you without standing up and moving to his desk!! And also you can send documents and drawings by email. And the copy machine!! I hate that!! It supervises me if I might miss copying! And when I got papers stuck inside, I got a call from a service centre of Ricoh!! They knew what I had done and gave me the solution. The damn copy machine tipped me off to them by net!

Am I ridiculous? It’s too basic for the young people, maybe. But in my days, I sent documents with postage stamps!!! I really, truly, feel with Urashima-Taro now!! If you want to feel how I feel now, read this Japanese folk tale ‘Urashima-Taro’

But I know,,,raising kids makes you forget time passing. You have to forget about your own time flow, and attune it with kids’ . There is no productivity, efficiency at all. I have been in such world. Don’t you think it’s wonderful? I have spent such a wonderful time for 10 years.

I feel better now!

Have a nice week-end!😀

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I think every person feels his time begin to slip away, esp parents, who have more important things to do than stare at their heso and think about things other than their kids and parenting. It’s a basic experience of all human society, I feel.

In fact, my WordPress name, bluewhitegreenred, means the colors of my childhood growing up in Hawaii: blue, the giant sky; white, the beautiful fluffy clouds there; green, the swaying sugar cane, and red, the color of the volcanic soil.

The green part, is no longer there in my hometown; the sugar cane industry died out more than 15 years ago, a few years after I became an adult and left home. I returned to Maui for the first time in 12 years, and many of the things I considered essential to my memories of Maui, are no longer there. It’s like walking into a dream, where things are similar, but many things do not match. So my username, symbolizes the Maui of my childhood, not the present.

I used to laugh silently at my parents, who even when I was young, used to say ‘why can’t things be like when we were young? Better for everybody’. I remember my mother buying me a Casio calculator watch for my birthday, but she didn’t like it, said it had ‘too many buttons’. Even today, she will not receive text-messages, because she wants to hear my voice. I thought ‘I’ll never be like that’… but that is how kids know nothing. (^- ^ )

Technology progresses very quickly nowadays; in Japan even more quickly. I know people who have never used a rotary-dial phone, or driven a car without fuel injection. These kinds of technological milestones passing, will only become more obvious as time goes by. Perhaps when your kids become teenagers, you may have difficulty relating to them, unless you adapt and embrace change. I have a hard time, so I empathize if you do too (I complain about it a lot, but now that I’m an ossan, there are only other ossan to complain too). (^= ^ )\

I think it’s crazy that Ricoh called you because the machine tipped them off!! I think that’s just something in Japan though, when I worked in an office last year in Singapore we didn’t have that!! I would totally freak out. It’s like BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING.

Also, I hope you’re having a wonderful time in your new job! Omedetou!! =D Take care, and I hope your colleagues are being nice to you! =D =D

I know how you feel; I’ve gone from carbon paper copies to a click on the keyboard copying. I remember having to justify text using the half-space key on a typewriter! I remember cutting wax stencils and running them on a mimeograph. Time marches on, and you will get accustomed to all the new technology just like the rest of us old geezers.

The printer and other equipment I maintain at my IT job tip off my boss if something is wrong, too. She’s already calling me to tell me what’s wrong before I can get out of the chair!! Damn things snitch on me, even over a small thing like a paper jam!!